Photograph
from
Levasseur
MOORISH INFLUENCE SHOWS IN PORTUGUESE ARCHITECTURE, AS IN THISELABORATE
CLOISTER
Manoel I laid the cornerstone of this Convento dos Jeronymos in 1499. At one angle of it stands Santa
Maria
Church,
with
thetombs
ofGama,
Camoens, and many royal graves. In its unfinished south wing is housed the Portuguese
Ethnological
Museum.